2 December 2017 In a swanky Washington restaurant in 1974, economist Arthur Laffer presented Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (future VP and US Secretary of Defence) a doodle on the back of a napkin. What appeared was a diagram of the now infamous “Laffer Curve”. The graph depicts the relationship between tax rates and tax [...]
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Do Markets Believe Central Banks?
22 October 2017 Investors appear convinced that stimulative G-7 monetary policies lie behind the markets’ record-setting performance. To be sure, that was the case between 2009 and 2015. During the past three years, however, I believe the impact of monetary policy has been quite neutral, the key driver of markets more recently has shifted from [...]
Driverless Cars: China, Japan, US, Europe – Brookings
driverless-cars-brookings If you want to consider the implications of driver-less vehicles, and you should, you need not look much further than the work done at the Brookings Institute.
Reaping Benefits from the Cloud –EIU Report
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